You’re a healthcare practice that just conducted a procedure on a patient. Luckily, that patient has a healthcare insurance provider so your medical billing team can submit a claim. All of this happens in around 2 hours, right? Actually, healthcare claim submission is a bit more complicated and takes much longer.

In medical billing, time is extremely important because when it comes to claim submissions there is some serious revenue on the line. A timely filing limit is a constant, lingering due date that healthcare providers need to understand.

Yesterday we held our webinar The Next Generation of Transactional Documents. If you couldn't make it to the webinar, you missed out an interesting presentation that explains exactly how the partnership between Etactics and LBSi is guided effort to successfully implement an ERP that allows both parties to enjoy access to XML data from a platform that provides direct integration into Etactics’ document composition and delivery platform, or, as we call it, ADoCS.

Introducing our newest series of educational video content, Webinar Tidbits. Instead of having to sit through and watch hundreds of hours of our past webinars, we will do the hard work for you and release these short videos that summarize the highlights of each of our past webinar.

So far in our Building Towards Successful Policy Management webinar series we've laid the foundation by covering topics like what the responsibilities of management should be and how a successful policy process looks. We've also detailed the steps involved in implementing a policy management process by discussing how to plan your policy manual and establishing a team charter. So what's next?

For the second episode of our three-part series, Building Towards Successful Policy Management, IntraVires Health Compliance Consultants and Etactics' Product Manager, Cole Schlafer, walked you through how to properly implement policies including defining a policy team, establishing a team charter, adopting points of parity, planning and organizing your policy manual, starting policy implementation, and steps for the future.

If you are a healthcare provider, it is almost inevitable that you will have to navigate through denials and payer audits. However, there are certain practices that can be implemented to better manage your denials, improve your claim quality, help you manage and track the challenges of audits, and reduce the overall chances of an audit and manage those you must undergo. If you don't know these best practices already, how could you?

Presenting episode two in our Building Towards Successful Policy Management webinar series - "Steps for Rolling Out a Policy Management Process". Now that we've appropriately established the foundation of a comprehensive policy management strategy for your organization, the second step toward comprehensive policy management is to begin the implementation process.

Couldn't make it to our webinar yesterday? That's okay because you can still watch the recording on how to take the initial steps towards laying down a solid foundation for your policy management strategy on our YouTube channel.